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Man convicted after boasting of robbing bank on MySpace

May 28, 5:43 PM EDT

Robber's MySpace boasting leads to conviction

Va. man pleads guilty to robbing a S.C. bank after boasting of crime on

 

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A man who confessed to robbing a South Carolina bank in a message posted on MySpace has pleaded guilty. Federal prosecutors said Thursday that 27-year-old Joseph Northington of Roanoke, Va., will be sentenced later for using a firearm during a crime of violence.

Authorities said Northington robbed a bank in North Augusta of almost $4,000 in January while visiting a friend, who called investigators after seeing surveillance pictures of Northington.

Prosecutors said before his arrest, Northington posted a message to his MySpace account reading: "On tha run for robbin a bank Love all of yall."

Northington faces seven years to life in prison. His attorney did not return a phone call Thursday.

Northington's MySpace page is still up, his status listed as "wanted."

Entry #532

Old Lottery Ticket Worth $13,000,000

Woman  wins $13m with 10-month-old Lotto ticket

 

May 28, 2009

Australian Associated Press

A WOMAN who delved through a bundle of old Lotto tickets because of her family's money worries has come up with more than $13 million.

The woman, a West Australian university student in her 30s, won $13,185,273 after checking a 10-month old lottery ticket she'd received as a gift from her father.

The ticket was for a $50 million Oz Lotto jackpot draw on July 22, 2008.

Unaware of the ticket's 12-month expiry date, the woman decided to check a bundle of lotto tickets, hoping for a small win to help out her family.

"I woke up this morning worried about our finances,'' the woman told Lotterywest in Perth on Thursday.

"Something made me think to check the tickets and I thought that if I win something, then I could help mum and dad out.''

Originally thinking she had won just over $13,000, the woman said she managed to remain calm as she was informed of the actual amount.

"I checked the commas and decimal places and then realised,'' she said.

"I always remember mum telling me that if I won Lotto, not to start jumping up and down in the shopping centre.''

The winning ticket was a $8.70 "slikpik", bought from the Beechboro Newsagency in Perth's eastern suburbs.
Entry #531

Mother fakes abduction found in Disney World with daughter

'Abducted' Mom Charged With ID Theft, False Reports

Woman, 9-Year-Old Girl Flew From Philadelphia to Orlando, Visited Disney World, Cops Say

By RICHARD ESPOSITO, JAY SHAYLOR and EMILY FRIEDMAN
May 27, 2009
 

A Pennsylvania woman who vanished after calling 911 to say she had been abducted and stuffed in the trunk of a car along with her young daughter apparently faked the abduction, booked a flight to Orlando, where she checked into a hotel under an alias and then took her daughter to visit a Disney theme park, law enforcement sources told ABC News.

Bonnie Sweeten, 38, was taken into custody in Orlando after being apprehended by the FBI and Orange County police at the Grand Floridian resort and is being charged with false reports and identity theft, Bucks County, Pa., District Attorney Michelle Henry said this evening.

Sweeten will not face any federal charges at this time, the prosecutor said.

Her 9-year-old daughter, Julia Rakoczy, was with authorities in Orlando and was to be picked up by her father, Henry said.

While Sweeten's motive for fleeing was unclear, Henry indicated that domestic and financial problems were likely at the root of it.

She said Sweeten used a a co-worker's driver's license when she bought airline tickets and flew to Orlando after reporting the abduction.

Link to photo and video:

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=7688217&page=1

Entry #530

Mother fits teenage son with GPS tracking device

Mother fits teenage son with GPS tracking device on gap year

A mother has fitted her teenage son with a GPS tracking device so she can monitor his every move during his gap-year travels.

Last Updated: 1:18PM BST 27 May 2009

Telegraph UK- Rachel Wilder, 53, has ordered her 19-year-old son Harry to carry a credit-card sized tracker while he travels across Australia, Thailand and South Africa in his gap year.

She can track him to within 15ft of his exact location and the system can even send her a text message alert if he goes anywhere he shouldn't.

Mrs Wilder keeps tabs on his movements by logging on to a website at the family home in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, every day.

Mrs Wilder, an inventory clerk, said: "It is fantastic to be able to keep an eye on Harry and track his journey.

"I can tell which street he is in so I can make sure he doesn't wander into any dangerous areas.

"I feel like I am sort of with Harry on his travels which gives me peace of mind and means he doesn't have to check in with a phone call.

"I have no way of knowing if a street in Australia is dangerous but if he was in Bangkok, for example, I could see if he walks in an area which might not be safe and ring or text him.

"The point of a gap year is to go away and not be hounded by your parents but equally as parents, it's quite nice to know where they are without constantly ringing up."

Harry has been in Australia with a group of friends since April and will travel to Thailand next month before heading to South Africa in July.

He is due to start a degree in Business Management at Oxford Brookes University in September.

The 2in thick GPS device - called Traakit - was developed by Harry's uncle David Clayton, 65, who launched it on the internet two weeks ago.

It triangulates its position by taking co-ordinate readings from four satellites which feeds the information back to a computer, which then maps out where it is in the world.

The technology means it updates instantly so Mrs Wilder - who has two other sons, Jamie, 18, and George, 12 - can keep tabs on Harry in real-time.

Suprisingly Harry, whose father John, 56, is a school bursar, says he is happy to carry the tracker as protection against the dangers of backpacking.

Speaking from the Brisbane, Australia, he said: "It's not so much of a concern here, but in somewhere like Thailand, if you were to get kidnapped or driven off into the jungle, people would be able to find you from the signal.

"One of my friends was killed in Australia a month ago falling off a waterfall, so people are worrying a bit.

"Not that it's happened yet, but if I didn't want mum to know where I was going I can always leave the thing in the car."

Mr Clayton, 65, who developed Traakit with his business partner Tim Young, 58, hopes the device will be used to help track missing children.

He said: "It's worked very well so far for Harry but we have been approached by parents who want to put on in their child's school bag or clothing.

"We have also had several women want to buy one because they think their husband might be cheating and they want to put it in the back of their car and keep tabs on where they are going."

Traakit costs £279 plus £11 a month service charge or can be rented for £50 a month.

 

Entry #529

Four bodies found in funeral home closed since 2006

Four Bodies Found In Vacant Funeral Home

In the middle of the trash-filled garage, Jeff Wells, Lake County Chief Deputy Coroner, tags a body bag Tuesday that was found in the garage at the former Serenity Gardens Funeral Chapel in Gary.   (Stephanie Dowell/Post-Tribune)




Lake County Deputy Coroners Ryan Parker (left) and Brandon Simpson on Monday remove one of four bodies found abandoned in the former Serenity Gardens Funeral Chapel in Gary. (Stephanie Dowell/Post-Tribune)'s

May 27, 2009
By Lori Caldwell, Post-Tribune staff writer

GARY -- Four bodies in a funeral home isn't unusual.

Four unidentified bodies left behind in a vacant funeral home is "unbelievable.

That's what the Rev. Reginald Burrell thought Sunday when he and deacons from Northlake Church of Christ went to visit their newly purchased building.

"What in the world is a body still doing in this building?" Burrell thought when he saw a body bag on a table inside the former Serenity Gardens Funeral Home, 934 E. 21st Ave.

He notified Lake County Coroner David J. Pastrick, who arrived Tuesday morning with a crew to investigate the scene.

They found four bodies, including one in the bag, one in a corrugated burial box and two in caskets.

Pastrick believes they could have been there since 2006, when the Indiana State Board of Funeral and Cemetery Services revoked the business license for Serenity owner Darryl Cammack.

"They are unidentifiable," Pastrick said of the remains.

Cammack, who lost his funeral home license in Illinois in 2003, had been sanctioned by the Indiana board in 2005 after at least eight customers filed complaints against him.

"That building has been vacant since I started coming over to that church in Gary in 2005," Burrell said.

His church bought the building at a tax sale and intends to renovate it.

"We have lots of plans and goals we want to pursue," Burrell said. The church now is located next door to their proposed new site.

Gary police are working with state agencies in the investigation.

Lake County Commissioner Roosevelt Allen, who was chairman of the state board in 2005, said Cammack could be charged with breaking several laws.

Pastrick said he doesn't know the origin of the bodies, but believes if the deceased were local, he would have been contacted by relatives about a delay in burial.

"I can't even imagine a funeral director doing something like this. This is my field. It's unbelievable," Pastrick said.

 

 

Bodies found in closed funeral home
Rev. Reginald Burrell thought that when he and deacons from Northlake Church of Christ went to visit their newly purchased building, the former Serenity Funeral Gardens at 934 E. 21st Ave, Gary, that they'd be alone. They weren't. Four bodies were discovered. Lake County Coroner David Pastrick said the bodies could have been there since 2006. The bodies, which had no identification, were removed by coroner's office personnel Tursday.
Lake County Chief Deputy Coroner Jeff Wells waits before a body is removed from a casket in the garage of the former Serenity Gardens Funeral Chapel in Gary.   (Stephanie Dowell/Post-Tribune
Entry #528

Priest fired for beating addicts

Priest fired for beating drug addicts

Wed May 27, 12:32 pm ET

BELGRADE (Reuters) – The  Serbian Orthodox Church  has dismissed a priest running a treatment center for drug addicts after videos showed patients being kicked and punched.

Bishop Artemije, in charge of the Rasko-Prizrenska diocese, said he ordered an inquiry into the activities of priest Branislav Peranovic at the Crna Reka center, about 300 kilometers (187 miles) southwest of the capital Belgrade.

"We will shut down the facility if the reports about beatings and violence persist," Artemije said in a statement.

The bishop said he decided against closing it "after numerous pleadings by the patients and their parents."

"We are also asking state authorities to investigate the matter and punish those responsible," the statement said.

Last week, the Holy Synod, the church's top body, asked Artemije to shut down the center that houses about 200 patients near the southwestern city of Novi Pazar.

Two separate videos made public by Belgrade's Vreme weekly and B92 TV showed one of the centre's employees and Peranovic repeatedly beating patients with a shovel, and kicking and hitting them inside a room decorated with icons.

The government's human rights watchdog Sasa Jankovic has filed criminal charges against the center and Peranovic.

This week Serbian health authorities said the Crna Reka center was not registered to undertake drug rehabilitation.

Peranovic told B92 TV the beatings were a "hard and unwanted, but necessary part of treatment."

He said that on admission, patients and their parents had to sign a written consent approving the use of violence "for therapeutic purposes."

(Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; Editing by Robert Woodward)

 

 

 

 

EXTREME REHABILITATION
VIDEO: Addicts in Serbia Brutally Beaten

An institution tied to the Serbian Orthodox Church will be sued for torture after shocking footage of addicts’ rehabilitation was released.

 

VIDEO: Addicts in Serbia Brutally Beaten 

 

The ‘Crna Reka’ Centre for Spiritual Rehabilitation of Addicts in Serbia has become the focus of controversy after the ‘Vreme’ magazine on Friday published footage on which two men are brutally punching a drug addict in the face as part of his “rehabilitation”. 

The footage also shows the addict being beaten with a shovel.

 

             "WARNING--VIDEO IS VERY DISTURBING!"

 

LINK TO VIDEO:

http://www.javno.tv/en/index.php?id=18331gbd6a06

 

The institution is connected to the Serb Orthodox Church and one of the priests, who is well acquainted with the ‘torture system’, claims that drastic measures need to be taken to rehabilitate drug addicts.

- Everybody who is an addict knows what I’m talking about – priest Branislav Peranovic told the B92 television station.

According to an article by the BBC which reported on this and contacted the Centre, the institution’s management believes that the brutal beating up of drug addicts is a crucial and necessary part of their therapy, stressing that this all takes place with the consent of the parents.

Sasa Jankovic, a human rights monitor in the Serbian government, told the BBC that the Centre’s usual procedure is to surround the addict who is then hit by anything at hand.

- They hit with bats, shovels, pipes, fists, brass knuckles, belts… anything they can get their hands on – Jankovic said who claims that the priest, Peranovic, is especially skilful with the therapy.

- He knows how to hit, his hands are often bloody. When he punches or kicks, his garb is all over the place. He practices in martial arts – one of the former addicts who was treated at the Centre told Jankovic.

After a number of psychologists and doctors gave their opinions about the case, Jankovic said he is planning to file a lawsuit against the Centre for torture.

- This is not therapy, it is a criminal act – he concluded.

 

 

Entry #527

Store Clerk Gives Robber His Own Money To Buy Insulin

Store Clerk Gives Robber Own Money

Hicham Raache
Times Record

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 9:19 AM CDT


Fort Smith police investigated two store robberies Monday night and early Tuesday morning, including one in which a clerk gave the suspect his own money to buy insulin.

Police were first dispatched to E-Z Mart at 3411 Country Club Ave., which has been robbed frequently in the past, concerning a near-robbery that resulted in the clerk giving the suspect his own money to help the man purchase insulin, according to a police report.

The clerk told police that at around 10:45 p.m. he was outside the store when a black male he did not know approached him and told him he needed something from inside the store. He said the man appeared to be 20 to 30 years old, 5 feet, 7 inches tall, about 125 pounds and wearing a dark colored “bucket hat,” a blue and white horizontally striped shirt and long, baggy blue denim shorts, according to the report.

Once inside the store, the clerk said, the man lifted his shirt slightly, revealing what appeared to be the tan colored grip of a handgun secured by his waistband. The clerk said the suspect told him, “I hate to do this, but I need $40 from the cash register,” according to the report.

The clerk said he asked the man to show him the gun and told him that he could not give him the money from the register because the money was not his to give. The suspect, he said, then told him that he needed the money to buy insulin. He said he reasoned with the suspect, explaining to him that the money was the store’s and that he, the suspect, would go to jail if he took the money. The clerk told the suspect that instead he would give him the $40 from his own pocket. The suspect thanked the clerk, shook his hand and said he would come back to see him. The suspect left as another customer came in, the report states.

About two hours later, Fort Smith police were dispatched to Jet Away, 3638 Midland Blvd., in response to another robbery. The store employee who called police said that a black male wearing a black shirt, blue denim shorts and a blue bandanna, robbed the store armed with what appeared to be a .22-caliber rifle, according to a police report.

The Jet Away clerk told police that he noticed the suspect after he had stepped out of the food preparation area. The suspect, he said, pointed the rifle at him and demanded money from the register, according to the report.

The suspect fled the store with a black plastic sack filled with the store’s money. He was seen heading north toward Spradling Avenue, the report states.

Sgt. Levi Risley of the Fort Smith Police Department said the robberies are not believed to be connected.

Entry #526

Teenage son refuses to listen mother fires warning shot

Police say Pa. woman frustrated at teenage son fires warning shot near his feet

By Associated Press

4:12 PM MDT, May 26, 2009

BANGOR, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman was accused of firing a shot into the ground near her teenage son's feet because he wouldn't listen to her. Police say 35-year-old Dawn Lynn Hogan was arguing with her son in front of her home on Monday and eventually went into the house to get her 9mm handgun. Police said when she went outside, her son continued to argue and she fired a shot, but didn't injure him.

Hogan was charged with endangering the welfare of children, possession of instruments of crime and recklessly endangering another person. She was in the Northampton County Prison in lieu of $15,000 bail. It wasn't immediately clear Tuesday if she had a lawyer.

Entry #525

Couple Celebrates 81st Wedding Anniversary

UK’s Longest Married Couple Celebrate 81st Anniversary

 by Laura on May 26th, 2009

Frank Milford, 101, and his wife Anita, 100, are the longest married couple in the UK, they celebrated their 81st wedding anniversary today.


They have lived together since they married on 26 May 1928, and now they have reached their oak wedding anniversary, and match Percy and Florence Arrowsmith who reached the same milestone in 2006.
Frank and Anita celebrated their wedding anniversary with a party at their care home in Plymouth Devon, with their family and friends.


Frank and Anita have two children, Marie, 78, and Frank, 73. They also have five grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren.


The couple said that the secret of their happy marriage is, “a little kiss before bed, trips to bingo, and good plain English food”.


Anita added, “Couples these days don’t last long because they don’t take enough time for each other. “There just isn’t enough respect.


“Our advice to young couples would be to make time for a little romance every day.”

Frank, a retired dock worker added, “We’re very proud of what we have achieved.
“When we started we had low wages and worked very hard.
“The war years were tough, a bomb even dropped on our house.
“But we have come through it. Young people today want it all too fast.”

Frank and Anita said they met at a YMCA dance in 1926, and they were married two years later at Torpoint register office in Cornwall.


1926 was the same year that the first £1 note came into circulation, and Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin.

 

Link to Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLJQYPJzTEo

Entry #524

Dog stoned from marijuana fumes uncovers illegal factory

Stoner dog smells out illegal crop

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 » 05:13am

A British dog's accidental drug use has helped police uncover a cannabis factory.

Holly the West Highland terrier began behaving oddly, according to her owner Valerie Baily.

'She just wouldn't wake up in the mornings, and she was having about 12 hours sleep at night. I had an awful job to get her up.'

It turned out the house next door was being used to cultivate more than 200 cannabis plants.

It was rigged up so fumes from the cannabis operation would go out of a chimney, but air vents, which were located at about the same height as Holly's nose, were left open.

Holly also seemed to have developed a case of the munchies.

'She had her own breakfast, and if the other dog hadn't eaten his, she'd was in eating his as well,' say Mrs Baily.

Investigating officer PC Tim Emery says the police are still searching for the people responsible for the illegal factory.

 

 

Entry #523

Church blesses congregation with $50,000

Church blesses
congregation with $50,000

Updated: Monday, 25 May 2009, 10:21 PM CDT
Published : Monday, 25 May 2009, 9:13 PM CDT

  • Hubert Tate
  • Charissa Cowart
  • Photojournalist, LaKeya Stinchcomb

MALBIS, Ala. - Trey Taylor is in charge of creative worship at Bay Community Church in Malbis. This past Sunday he and other church leaders came up with a really creative idea.

"We gave away $50,000," he said. The church handed each member in the 2,000 member congregation money. But the gesture came with a stipulation.

"The instructions were simple, you can't give it back to the church and you can't spend it on you and your family," said Taylor.

Some members got $20, others got as much as $100. "Every person that was here got an envelope."

Taylor says when some members saw the white envelopes come around, they thought the pastor was going to ask for tithes and offerings, but boy were they wrong.

"The reason behind it was simple. We wanted our people to turn around and bless somebody," Taylor said.

Taylor says this might sound a little crazy. But he tells us the government has an Economic Stimulus Package, well this is the church's version of a Faith Stimulus Package. "An act of faith...absolutely, 100-percent."

The church's leadership admit tithing is down amongst churches. But the pastoral team says now is the best time to help others.

Link to Video:

Church gives out money

 

Entry #521

15 Words You Won't Believe They Added to the Dictionary

15 Words You Won’t Believe They Added to the Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary is constantly updating, adding new words to reflect the vibrant changes in language and culture.  Here are some recent additions 
 
#15.
Muggle

n. In the fiction of JK Rowling: a person who possesses no magical powers. Hence in allusive and extended uses: a person who lacks a particular skill or skills, or who is regarded as inferior in some way.

The people at the Oxford English Dictionary acknowledge that the work of an author entering the dictionary is rare, but the use of "muggle" had become so widespread they had to include it, ensuring that the future will remember us for standing in line at Borders in wizard costumes.

Wait, does this mean if we invent a new word right now they'll be forced to include it in a few years, as long as enough readers use it? Good. Guys, the word is "dongtacular."

#14.
Blamestorming

n.A method of collectively finding one to blame for a mistake no one is willing to confess to. Often occurs in the form of a meeting of colleagues at work, gathered to decide who is to blame for a screw up.

There already is a word for when a group of people blame someone for a mistake. It's called blaming. Blamestorming, however, cutely mimics "brainstorming" and office politics dictates the more cringe-inducingly "clever" a word sounds, the more often in needs to be used.

"We're so witty! Just like the people on The Office! Somebody should make a sitcom about us!"

#13.
Gaydar

n.a homosexual person's ability to identify another person as homosexual by interpreting subtle signals conveyed by their appearance, interests, etc.

Ah, there's nothing like a cutsey pun to sum up this awkward and nervous era when we finally acknowledged there was such a thing as gay people without treating it as a national emergency, yet were not so cool with it that people felt OK about openly acknowledging their gayness.

Thus we had to invent this word to represent the rush of personal pride felt by the perceived ability to instinctively tell if someone prefers sausage to tacos, whether they wanted you to know it or not.

#12.
Grrrl

n.a young woman regarded as independent and strong or aggressive, especially in her attitude to men or in her sexuality.

Now, remind us, is "grrrl" a word used by "grrrl" types, or the people who make fun of them? You know what, it doesn't matter, because, there's no vowel.

What the is that? Call us tools of the male chauvinist patriarchy, but even the wacky sound effects from the 60s Batman TV show had vowels in them. That's right, this is less of a word than ZWWAP!

#11.
Threequel

n.the third film, book, event, etc. in a series; a second sequel.

Hey, thanks Hollywood, for making enough of these that we had to invent a whole new word. So will fourquel be next? Quadrology? Will we all be buying the Star Wars sixantium box set?

#10.
Mini-me

n. a person closely resembling a smaller or younger version of another.

Hey, remember when you thought we couldn't get any lower than "muggle"? Those were the days, right?

Nothing puts a society as firmly in its place as when you realize the language has been permanently changed by a franchise about a horny spy that repeated the same jokes and catchphrases dozens of times across two sequels. Is this one from the same movie where Mike Myers drank the cup full of ? We don't remember.

#9.
Screenager

n.a person in their teens or twenties who has an aptitude for computers and the Internet.

In a curious twist, there is no word for an Amish youth who has an aptitude for barn raising or a Scientologist youth who's developed some skills in picking the lock on his cage. Still, it's probably hard to make a really ty pun for either of those so that might explain things.

#8.
Cyberslacking

v.spending one's employer's internet and email facilities for personal activities during working hours.

Remember the dot-com bubble of the late 90s, when the internet was new and exciting and every novelty erotica site you found was like Christmas morning, only with fisting? Cyberslacking is the word product of that. In retrospect, using the internet to kill time at work wasn't the Tron-like revolutionary experience this word implies, so regular "slacking" would suffice just as well.

#7.
Lookism

n.prejudice or discrimination on the grounds of appearance.

Sometimes when attractive people get a raise or ugly people have to eat out of a trough in the cafeteria, the people on the wrong side of that scenario are tempted to equate it to generations of violence, oppression and bigotry experienced by any number of people who actually know what discrimination is.

So just stick "-ism" on the end and there you go.

#6.
Frankenfood

n.derogatory a food that contains genetically modified ingredients.

Really, it's looking like a memorable pun is all that's required for a word to be embraced by society as a whole. So even if you have something that has saved millions of lives like, say, genetically modified crops, if you can think of a kick ass and mildly amusing way to dumb it down and liken it to a shambling, murderous corpse-man, congratulations. You're making language!

#5.
Riffage

n.guitar riffs.

Slightly more annoying than making nouns into verbs for no reason ("hold on, I'm Twittering!") is the trend of pluralizing them with "age". No need to say "make love" when "humpage" will do just as well. And hell, we can label all fire alarms with ", burnage!" to make it that much clearer to everyone.

#4.
Bouncebackability

n.the ability to recover from near-defeat in a competition; the ability to recover from a setback.

While resilience is already a perfectly good word that means the exact same thing, bouncebackability does sound much more like something a semi-literate alcoholic might put on a resume, giving it that added appeal of mouthbreathability words like resilience lack.

#3.
Prebuttal

n.a rebuttal for an accusation before it is made.

The sad part about this one is that it only sounds completely insane until you realize it's mostly done by politicians, after which it sort of makes perfect sense. They know they're full of , but hope this somehow can preemptively stop anybody from pointing it out.

"Now, you're all going to accuse me of being a racist here, but let me explain why I think minorities shouldn't be allowed to drive..."

#2.
Ego-surfing

v.searching the internet for instances of one's own name or links to one's own website.

Googling yourself is like masturbation: everyone does it, but it's still embarrassing to get caught. Getting caught and then referring to what you're doing as ego-surfing is like trying to explain to the bus driver that you're simply looking for your bus pass which, when you last saw it, was drifting somewhere around your foreskin, instead of just pulling up your pants and walking home.

#1.
Meatspace

n.The physical world, as opposed to virtual.

Doubtlessly coined by a level 80 Druid tank somewhere in the World of Warcraft, it's a sad day for the species when what you may recognize as that in which everything exists, needs a special term to differentiate it from the "real" world of Facebook friends and LOLcats.

Soon you'll hear it used in sentences like, "So all of the crops are dying and the air is turning poisonous? Bah, who cares about all that stuff that happens in lame old Meatspace."
Entry #520

Man Has 21 Children 11 Mothers Pays $1.98 Child Support Per Month

Man has 21 children with 11 mothers!

Chris Mullen

Updated May 25, 2009

 

On paper, he has 20 possibly 21 children.

With a minimum wage job, he can't afford to support them all.

Desmond Hatchett, 29, says he wasn't out to set a record, though he certainly holds it in Knox County Juvenile Child Support Court.

Hatchett's children range in age from newborn 11.

There are at least 11 mothers; probably several more.

Constitutionally, there is nothing the state of Tennessee can do to limit him from having more.

On Friday, his name appeared on the docket 11 times; Representing about 15 of his 21 children.

Desmond Hatchett spent part of Friday afternoon jailed while a child support referee decided how to split up the $400 he brought to court.

If he doesn't pay what he owes, he will go back to jail because he is on an automatic jail order.

The mothers of Hatchett's children are supposed to get anywhere from $25 to $309 a month, but when his paycheck is garnished amongst them all, some women only get a $1.98 a month.

 

CBS
Link to photo of Desmond Hatchett:
Entry #519

Remote toy copter used to deliver mobile phones to prison inmates

Gang busted for prison mobile phone delivery with toy chopper

Brazilian police caught gang members using a remote-controlled toy helicopter to deliver mobile phones to colleagues locked up in a top-security prison.   



Last Updated: 12:13AM BST 26 May 2009

Telegraph Uk
Gang busted for prison mobile phone delivery with toy chopper  
 

Four suspects were arrested late on Sunday outside a maximum security facility in the southern town of Presidente Venceslau in Brazil's Sao Paulo state after the mini-chopper, 14 mobile telephones and the equivalent of 500 dollars in cash were found in their rented car, according to reports in local media.

They had been stopped for a routine inspection because of their proximity to the prison, which holds organised crime bosses and other dangerous inmates.

The youngest of the suspects, a 17-year-old boy, reportedly confessed to police that they had received £3,200 to pay for the operation and would receive another £3,200 if successful. He refused to say who was to receive the telephones.

Brazil's criminals often continue illicit activities while serving time, relying on mobile phones that are smuggled inside using increasingly creative methods. In the past, carrier pigeons and doctored Bibles have been used.

 

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